Electric Propulsion in Europe: Development and Applications

The paper shows the current status of development of electric propulsion systems in Europe, with a p‘articular emphasis posed on the programmes which already foresee the use of electric thrusters in the short and medium term. The industrial involvement in Europe in the development of electric propulsion systems is also presented. As a result of years of activities in this field, Europe has a very large inventory of electric thrusters, and now that electric propulsion is recognised as a key technology for modem spacecraft, these European thrusters can be used for all the applications currently envisaged for this rechnology. Some of these thrusters have been fully developed ‘and

Keywords:

• Marine engineering
• Spacecraft
• Electrically powered spacecraft propulsion
• Engineering
• fully developed
• medium term
• qualification testing
• mission analysis
• Systems engineering

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